LEADING FROM THE FUTURE: CELEBRATING MASTER PROPHET ARCHBISHOP E. BERNARD JORDAN'S 60TH BIRTHDAY

Master Prophet Archbishop E. Bernard Jordan

1:10 am, June 11, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York, was a significant time in history because the Master Prophet, Archbishop E. Bernard Jordan was born. Now 60 years later, he has prophesied to thousands of people all over the world and has made an impact in their lives by leading them from the future.

In his early years, Master Prophet dealt with some challenges in life, such as a serious stuttering problem, severe case of athlete's foot, and racial segregation, to name a few. He didn't let these challenges stop him from pursuing his destiny. At the age of 15, E. Bernard Jordan received a message from the Spirit of the Lord in his dream that he must prophesy for Him. That is when he began his journey as a prophet, and he hasn't stopped since.

In March 1983, Bishop Jordan and his wife Pastor/ Prophetess Debra Jordan launched their church, Zoe Ministries Inc. 39 years later, they have built a community filled with Pastors, Ministers, Deacons, Prophets, and so much more. They have led their five children and spiritual children in the pathways of the Lord.

Today, we celebrate 60 years of life for Master Prophet, Archbishop E. Bernard Jordan. I was fortunate to sit down with him to discuss how he feels about turning sixty, prophecies fulfilled, and where he sees himself in the next 60 years.

Sis Jessica Chalmers (SJC): You are celebrating your 60th year of life. How do you feel at this moment?

Archbishop Bernard Jordan (ABJ): Well, celebrating the 60th year of life feels empowering to know that we live to live again, so I'm looking forward to living again during the next decade of the sixties. I'm more or less looking at legacy, what the future holds, how much my life has made a difference in the earth and with different people, how my life can make a difference, and what it will look like going forward.”

SJC: In one of your videos, you mentioned how sixty is your midlife crisis. What is the midlife crisis that you are going through?

ABJ: Well, usually when I say midlife crisis, it's where boy situations show up in adult bodies, and they're beginning to act out. So, when I think of midlife crisis, it's either they go chase younger girls or get fast cars. They're doing what they couldn't do as a boy and start doing it now as an adult because they have the power. But 60 being the midlife crisis, I feel like I'm doing stuff at 60 that I should have been doing at 40. I’m reflecting on the way I have reared my children and reared my grandchildren. I’m looking at the way I have led the church and thinking about new ways I can lead the people. I’m also looking at taking care of some unstarted and unfinished businesses at hand. As I enter into this new decade, I thank God that I have the strength to take care of those things. That’s why I call it a midlife crisis because I’m looking at midlife being half of 120, which is 60.

SJC: As the master prophet, I have heard some stories about a lot of prophecies coming to life that you have given. How important is that to you today being 60?

ABJ: Well, it could have been that at 60 years old the testimony is that none of his prophecies have come to pass, and we don't have any prophecies to point to. People are straining to find one fulfilled prophecy. In 1988, "The Written Judgements" is where we prophesied about the coins. We said to watch the coins and the dollars because it was going into crisis. Then, to watch one of the bloggers pick that prophesy up and say this man wrote about bitcoins long before it ever existed. Bitcoins are from the 2000s and we wrote about it in the 1980s. Also, there was a prophecy concerning a voice that would come out of West Virginia and now we have Bishop T.D. Jakes. He is a symbol of a fulfillment of that word. We began to look at the prophetic words spoken concerning Hurricane Katrina, where the year was called out long before it occurred. All of these were written prophecies.

We don't only have the people saying and the hearsay prophecy, we have documented prophecies. The first book was written in 1988, the second 1989, the third 1996 and the fourth 1998. To watch those documented prophecies come to pass testifies of itself. So at 60, I’m glad that I was able to see fulfilled prophecies and hear people talk about it.

SJC: Speaking about the written judgments, I heard there's an unreleased fifth book. Is there anything that happened in the fifth one that has already come to pass?

ABJ: Oh yeah, that's why I stopped. In “Written Judgments Five”, I started prophesying where I saw cars, vehicles leaving off the ground and traveling by way of air space. Now, I'm hearing that there are drones that will probably be delivering packages in the future. I saw where there were interplanetary communications, haven't seen that come to pass yet, but I saw a communication from outer space that was starting to happen on the earth. I also saw some other things in “Written Judgments” that just felt like we were in a world that didn't exist yet. I didn't have the language for it, so I just destroyed the book and never did do the judgments volume five.

SJC: Today, do you want to redo written prophecy five or continue the one you started?

ABJ: I probably will go away. Each one of the books I went away somewhere to write it. I will probably go away to write the “Written Judgments Five” by myself and allowing myself to make that happen. I will continue the volume because I am starting to see some things with 2100 already.

Master Prophet Archbishop E. Bernard Jordan

SJC: Oh, wow. Tell me more about that. You said you are already seeing things from the year 2100, and right now we are in the season of leading from the future. What does that mean to you, and how are you leading us in that way?

ABJ: Leading from the future is getting people fit to stand in for the future. What that might look like is that if I know, for instance, that you've got to be in a fight, then I will condition you for the fight. The conditioning won't make sense in the present. You'll only be able to appreciate the conditioning when you get to stand in the future that is calling you. I'm leading people from the future in the information that I'm dispensing, causing them to look at the word of God through different sets of eyes. I'm leading from the future in that way. Also, I'm leading from the future by looking at what it is to create in terms of developing, in terms of writing and research so that these words will be available for them.

We're writing some words about marketing, writing some words about the prophetic and how a person can become very disciplined in the prophetic —looking at some areas of music. I had someone get in touch with me recently saying we need to put a new cover on our first album "Come Together" because they just started listening to that and he says, “Why don't you put a new cover on that, and we release it?” And I said, “Wow.” They said they felt like the music sounded fresh. So a lot of times we write music or do the song of the Lord that is in a day that hasn't been born yet, so I think it's vital to preserve that. Back then we had written over a hundred songs. Some of them never got released, and they were all out of the psalm books.

SJC: I didn't know that you made music. I know you speak about technology as well. What other areas have you touched on or plan to reach that people may not know?

ABJ: I will probably start looking at all of the different sciences that deal with divination because of the school of the prophets. When you look at the prophets in the scripture, like Daniel and Joseph, they sat with the soothsayers and the different systems of divination. The book of Daniel talked about how Daniel was with the astrologers, Sheldians, and the sorcerers. So, looking at this, we need to prepare prophets that understand the systems of divination, yet be able to speak with authority from the power of God, understanding those different systems. I'm praying that we will be able to prepare a generation that will understand these different systems and begin to really look at those systems and study them as a science and see how they work and function and then what our contribution can be to make a difference in that.

SJC: With 60 years of life, what is one thing that you prophesied that you saw come to life that you were like wow, that's amazing that happened, and you got to see it happen?

ABJ: Oh, there's a bunch of them. First, I would say the first black president that was prophesied in 1996. President Obama told black people do not rejoice for it would be some of the worst days in the history of African Americans. There were eight people shot during a prayer meeting, which was unheard of during the time of a black president’s presidency.

We also started seeing the prophetic word that we saw come to pass concerning Haiti's change in government prophesied in 1989. Some pastors bought thousands of books. It was time for a change; we prophesied about the change of government. That was the theme of the new campaign, and a new prime minister came into office as a result of it. Also, calling up the year of Hurricane Katrina and saying wow that came to pass.

The prophecy appointed to 911 about what would happen. When I think about that, we told a woman to do no business on September 11. She was supposed to be in the first tower that got struck at nine o'clock for a financial meeting. She canceled the meeting on a prophetic word that possibly saved her life or saved her from trauma. She was at the Waldorf Astoria looking at the top of the building and said, “I was supposed to be in that building there, that's on fire.” She had a prophetic word she could pinpoint that came to pass.

Another prophetic word spoken was a woman who was ill. She believed she had the flu and we told her to get her mother-in-law out of her house. She said, “That’s my mother -in-law.” I said, “Throw out all the food.” She didn't throw the food out. She went and got the food tested and found out that her mother-in-law was poisoning her. These are just a few testimonies that we hear. Then as I kept going to the royal family, we prophesied to them when they thought that there would be no more monarch. We prophesied that the king would come to the throne. Now those people are sitting in government, in the royal family and the king, His Majesty King Aswati, has opened his arms and receiving the prophetic and prophets into the nation. So we've seen a lot of the prophetic words spoken over people come to pass. People that couldn't have children all of a sudden conceived and gave birth. And so that's been the fulfillment of the word of the Lord. To all of the testimonies, we say to God be the glory.

SJC: You travel all over the world prophesying to people. How has that experience been for you to be able to be in these different places and just seeing people's lives change?

ABJ: It's amazing. What's amazing is my first trip to Korea. Korea is where I spoke to some of the largest crowds of people in South Korea. We've got a chance to prophesy there and speak through an interpreter. Swaziland, South Africa was my first trip, and that was in 1984. Germany, military camps, and German churches. Great. Remarkable. Just watching their lives get turned around. France. Great places of visitation of God among their people all night prayer there in France. There with the African churches. So, we've traveled to Ghana ministering to the king of Ghana, and there, with the royal family, I ordained my first bishop.

SJC: Have you received any backlash for being a prophet?

ABJ: Oh, mostly my whole life, but the backlash is part of the conditioning and testing of the call of the prophet. I believe the greater your rejection, the greater your anointing, until then, you won't find your anointing.

SJC: Going back to the celebration of 60 years of life, 60 to 65 is usually the retirement age. Are you planning to retire anytime soon? What's the future that you see for yourself?

ABJ: My future is to dig deeper into my work and find myself moving away from a lot of the menial tasks and focus on my work of what I'm called to do: be a prophet and develop prophets. I'm looking forward to probably downsizing and getting into smaller real estate and not managing much properties so I can focus on more writing and do more research and go into the world of teaching and exploring who and what a prophet is. I’m looking forward to that. I most likely won’t retire. I’ll be set up at the age of 75. If I choose to, I can retire, but I see the rest of my life doing my work.

SJC: Is there anything that you want to share with your community as far as your Zoe family, partners, and anyone that will be at the birthday celebration when they read this magazine?

ABJ: My prayer is that we will begin to come together as a community, as first my Jerusalem, which is African American because I think our greatest power is in our connectedness and being together as one people, one voice, one body. My mind goes back to the tower of Babel in Genesis Chapter 11. People were one and anything they were imagined to do, it wouldn't be an impossibility. To get the people operating in one call, one voice, one people, one nation can probably eradicate poverty in our community. Not looking for outside help or support, but it's coming right from within us together as we network. Another thing, I want my people to get that your network determines your net worth. If you want your work to go up then this would be the time, now, to begin pulling together, pulling your network together, and coming together as a people. As a unit, you're powerful together as one people in one voice.

Master Prophet Archbishop E. Bernard Jordan